Online Resources
The online resources provide you with a means of interacting with
the lecturer and the other students doing this unit. We want you
to use the web to:
- introduce you to some of the important concepts;
- get you started thinking about the ideas of Contested Knowledges;
- interact with each other about these ideas;
- collect resources on the issues discussed.
The following online resources can be used to explore issues in
this unit:
Glossary
Bibliography
General notices
Tutorial discussion
Issues discussions
Glossary
The
Glossary is a collection of terms that are used in the discussion
of this unit and some other important terms that you might come
across in the course of your reading and discussion. You will see
that in many cases there are three or four different definitions
for the one term. We tried to get different people's ideas together
to illustrate that terms and their definitions are a 'contested
domain' - no one of us is going to have the definitive definition
and together they should help you to get an idea of what the term
can mean.
We'll say right now that it is not a comprehensive document and
the aim is to make it a 'work in progress' that is constructed by
us and developed cooperatively between us and you. You'll see that
part of your assessment is to add your contributions to the Glossary,
maybe a new term you find or your own perspective on one of the
terms there already.
Bibliography
The
Bibliography is a set of references set up to assist you in
finding information and material that will provide you with different
perspectives on the different concepts we address in the unit and
to develop your ideas on the issues that you investigate for your
assessment. You'll find that there is a wide range of articles,
books and journals listed in alphabetical order, some have annotations
to help you get an idea of what they are about and other are waiting
for you to add your annotation as part of your assessment.
Once again, the Bibliography is a 'work in progress' and I look
forward to you making contributions to it as part of your assessment
for this unit. You can annotate one of the references already there
or add something you have found in your readings over the course
of the semester. Remember to use the
Harvard
(Author-Date) referencing system when you add a reference.
If you annotate one of the references already there, please try
to be concise.
General notices
The general notices takes you to the discussion page where we can
talk about the nuts and bolts, housekeeping issues for this unit.
I'll post hints and ideas here about how to navigate the unit website,
reminders about assessments that are due, important notices about
enrolments and other unit related things.
You can use the general notices to contact me about concerns, ideas
for and questions about your assessments and other students on unit-related
housekeeping issues.
I would appreciate it if you could keep content-related notices
out of this site. It just tends to be confusing if people ask content
questions here and in the other discussion sites as well.
Tutorial discussion
We will spend a considerable amount of time looking at the important
ideas and theories that I will introduce you to in this unit. Firstly,
when you have had a chance to read Marcia Langton's article and
explore the concept of 'wilderness',
we'll use this
tutorial
discussion site to talk about what we think about the contested
nature of the idea of wilderness. Later on, I will be discussing
with you some of the ideas that are introduced to you in the 'Key
Questions' book. This is the place to ask the rest of the group
and me, questions about the general content of this unit.
Issues discussions
Each of the issues that are open for investigation has its own
discussion site. This is the place you should post the information
and resources you find on the topics you investigate. If you read
something in an Issue Discussion Page and want to add to it, contest
it or what ever, feel free to do so. They are places to post information,
but they are discussion pages as well!
If Medicine is the major topic you are going to do your presentation
on, then check the
Medicine
discussion page regularly to see what other student contributions
have been posted there.
If you choose to investigate 'medicine' as your minor topic, then
post your contributions on the
Medicine
discussion page.
You should make sure you are familiar with how these discussion
pages work in with your assessment tasks by reading the assessment
information for this unit.
There are ten different issues and each one has its own discussion
page:
- Land - different concepts of
land, its origins, ownership and use.
- Nature - how do different people
see nature and their place in it?
- Law - different laws, a different
role for laws and legal systems?
- Medicine - different ways of
conceiving of sickness and health.
- Education - approaching education
in different ways.
- Language - how do people conceive
of languages: their origin and use.
- Economics - different economic
systems and their implications for society.
- History - constructing history
in different ways.
- Gender - do different
people construct gender differently?
- Fire - looking at the
different people's responses to fire and the use of fire.
Use these links to take you to the various discussion pages.
When you have explored the Discussion Pages, you should head back
to the Classroom and begin your travels
through the unit by beginning to explore the 'wilderness'
through the classroom window.
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